VLVL2 context: "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

[pynchonoid]

[...] I want to know about "Subterranean Homesick
Blues," one of his most radical songs. The 1965 number
fused folk and blues in a way that made everyone who
heard it listen to it over and over. John Lennon once
said the song was so captivating on every level that
it made him wonder how he could ever compete with it.

The lyrics, again, were about a society in revolution,
a tale of drugs and misuse of authority and trying to
figure out everything when little seemed to make
sense:


Johnny's in the basement

Mixing up the medicine

I'm on the pavement

Thinking about the government

The music too reflected the paranoia of the time —
roaring out of the speakers at the time with a
cannonball force.

Where did that come from?

Without pause, Dylan says, almost with a wink, that
the inspiration dates to his teens. "It's from Chuck
Berry, a bit of "Too Much Monkey Business" and some of
the scat songs of the '40s." [...]

...read it all:
Rock's enigmatic poet opens a long-private door 
 He learned from the Carter Family and Edgar Allan
Poe, he confides. And he wrote "Blowin' in the Wind"
in 10 minutes.
By Robert Hilburn, Times Staff Writer 
First in a series of occasional stories exploring the
songwriter's art. The next installment will run in
Sunday Calendar. 

<http://www.calendarlive.com/music/pop/cl-ca-dylan04apr04,0,3583678.story>

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